Hollo records obsolete &/or archaic definitions of Ruth from the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. the quality of being compassionate; pitifulness; the feeling of sorrow for another; compassion, pity. 2, contrition, repentance; remorse. now rare. 3. sorrow, grief, distress; lamentation. 4. matter or occasion of sorrow or regret. 5. a native vehicle or carriage. 6. to awaken, rouse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.